Sayeed Muhammad: The early unofficial results yesterday showed that Awami League’s mayoral aspirant Jahangir Alam was leading in the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) election. According to unofficial results of 118 polling centres as of 8pm yesterday, Jahangir bagged 1,37,034 votes while his BNP counterpart Hasan Uddin Sarker got 60,204 votes. Earlier in the day, polling…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age: There is quite something to be said about those Bengalis who somehow cannot rest easy with the place of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in history. More than decades ago, Syed Najmuddin Hashim enlightened yours truly with remarkable tales of some Bengali civil service officers trapped in Pakistan in…
Dr Salehuddin Ahmed, Former Governor, Bangladesh Bank: The move to fix bank loan interest rate at 6% was not right. Bankers say they would fail to attract depositors just because of the interest rate. So why did they agree to do so? This is not right. Now they say they cannot grant 9% defaulted loan….
Prof Dr. Mahbubullah, Economist: There has been debate on whether the state’s money can be kept in private banks. It can be kept at 6% deposit rate. But what should the deposit and interest rates be? Interest rates should be brought down within 3-4%, not more than that. For every bank, profit is a huge…
Engineer M Inamul Haque, Former Director General, WARPO: Our capital is so congested of buildings that naturally the temperature is higher. This is resulting increased heavy rains and hail storm incidents. The increased heat results a sudden 4-5 km lift on the air. Artificial forests of buildings has been created cutting down many trees and…
Sayeed Muhammad: City dwellers of Gazipur are all set to exercise their franchise as voting in the city election starts at 8am amid tight security, with the Election Commission (EC) completing all necessary preparations in this regard. “All necessary preparations have already been taken to hold the elections in a free, fair and peaceful manner,”…
Abrar Hussain: In a bid to prevent road accidents in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the concerned authorities new directives, including a restriction on drivers plying their vehicles on the highways to five hours at a stretch, reports The Daily Star. The PM gave the order as soon as the news spread…
Afsan Chowdhury, Scholar and Political Analyst : The countrymen are not at all interested in the Gazipur City Corporation election. I do not know whether citizens of Gazipur are interested or not, but the rest of the country definitely does not care. Actually, the election atmosphere is not of any importance. Back in 2013, the people…
Sejuti Mourin: Teachers and employees of non-MPO educational institutions, have began an indefinite hunger strike protesting for enlistment under the government’s Monthly Payment Order (MPO) facilities. Hundreds of teachers and employees under the banner of “Non-MPO Shikhya Pratishthan Shikhyak Karmachari Federation” gathered in front of the National Press Club at 10 am yesterday. Earlier on…
Sofian Khan: Six workers have been killed with 32 others injured after two separate road accidents in Tangail. In one accident at Kalihati upazila, 5 labourers from Gaibandha were killed when it veered out of the driver’s control in the bus stand area and crashed into a roadside ditch, said Kalihati Police OC Mir Mosharraf Hossain….